Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-02-17

his wife with him when he went to
Nod, and began to multiply, as every
husband should. ARcANUM.
Some fifty assemblies Of the Knights
Of Labor have formed in Alabama in
side of two months.
Brockton, Mass, is to form Cen
trail Labor Union and will cover
radius of ten square miles.
Boston's Central Labor Union has
placed a boycott upon goods made by
the American Tack company.
Maryland gives employment to co.
600 persons in canning fruit and oys-
tiers, the estimate being $780, 900 cans
annually.
All permits to manufacture and sell
official Knights of Labor goods have
been revoked by the general executive
board.
The street car employees of the
United States are about to form a
national district of the Knights of
Labor.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters of
Hartford, Conn, have decided on
nine hours as days work after
April 1.
A bill to establish bureau of labor
statistics has, passed the Georgia
Legislature, there being but one vote
against it,
Glass manufacturers of Pittsburg
have determined to advance prices,
which means an increase in wages for
the workmen.
"Non-swearing Knights is the
name of an organization started with
the Knights of Labor in Chicago to
discourage swearing.
The textile workers of Philadelphia
have applied to the General Executive
Board for trades district charter
which will be granted them.
Local assembly 1862, of Trenton,
n. j., has passed resolutions condem-
ming the use by the authorities of
Jersey City of the Pinkerton thugs.
A move for shorter hours is expected
to be made in the spring by the car
penters in Pittsburg, Allegheny and
other Pennsylvania towns.
The effort to establish a State print
ing Office and abolish the contract sys-
TEN is to be renewed in the legislature
of the State of Connecticut.
In Frankfort-on-t he-main the shoe
makers say the German government is
running their trade by flooding the
market with convict-made shoes.
The wages of the freight handlers
employed by the Boston q Lowell
railroad company in Boston have been
increased from $3.50 to $l.56 per day.
During the recent strike of book
printers in Leipsic, Germany, the gov
eminent forced all book printers serv-
ing in the army in that section to take
the places of the strikers.
Tailors and operatives of Boston are
to form union with its objects as
follows: Reduced hours of toll, in
creased compensation and to establish
sick and death benefit society.
Since the holidays 5000 statesmen,
women, cash girls and boys have been
discharged in the stores of New York
and Brooklyn, and they have no pros
pect of employment until the next hol-
idays.
The Boston Globe says; "Rev. Sam
Jones has made the best impression on
Boston of any revivalist who has Wis
lied the city in recent years. He is
man of brain and originality, and Bos-
ton likes men af that stamp.
1t is said that in the Pennsylvania
coal regions there are hundreds of
children from seven to fifteen years of
age working out their young lives at
hard work at the mines in slate pick
ing, coke trimming and mule driving.
All contracts for convict labor in
the Erie county On. Y.) penitentiary
expired December 81, and new ones
cannot be made. The legislature will
be asked to permit the employment of
half the convicts on the piece-price
plan.
The South Chicago rolling mill COM
pany on January ] rendered their en-
ployes with "checks" instead of cash
as heretofore. The men refused to
accept them, and the Amalgamated
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